A Kennett Square teen punched her ticket to Hollywood with her performance on TV’s American Idol on Wednesday night.

Lindsey Pedicone, a 2013 graduate of Kennett High School, wowed judges Jennifer Lopez, Keith Urban and Harry Connick Jr. with her rendition of Delta Rae’s “Bottom of the River.”

“I was singing right to Harry Connick Jr.,” Pedicone said in an interview on Fox 29’s Good Morning show. “When he started banging on the table, I knew I had him.”

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Pedicone, 18, then garnered the votes of both Urban and Lopez to make it unanimous.

“I’m real proud of her,” said Jesse Allen, Pedicone’s step-father. “She plans to go to music school and I’m very proud of her.”

Pedicone, who lives on Union Street with her mother Sherri Allen and her step-father, sang “Auld Lang Syne” at the Mushroom Drop in Kennett Square on New Year’s Eve.

Pedicone started auditioning for the show when she was 15.

“This was the fourth time I auditioned, and I had more confidence in myself this time,” she said.

When questioned after her performance on television, Pedicone said the golden ticket she got was a dream of a lifetime.

“I always wanted to be on the show, when I was like 5 or 6,” she told a national TV audience. “I said Mommy, I’m going to be on that show, just wait.”

Jesse Allen said his step-daughter’s dream involved a lot of travel.

“We took her to Boston, to New York, to Pittsburgh, and she was very persistent,” he said. “The first weekend of August we got a call back to make sure we had her there by Labor Day, the same weekend Harry Connick signed his contract.”

Shortly after that, around the time of the Kennett Square Mushroom Festival in September, American Idol sent TV crews to Kennett Square to film segments involving Pedicone, but it was kept secret. Few, in fact, even knew Pedicone was on American Idol Wednesday night because of the secrecy.

Jesse Allen said Pedicone went to Hollywood right before Christmas. But the results of that audition, too, are secret.